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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the status of metathesis as a synchronic phonological rule. Although metathesis has traditionally been regarded as a relatively sporadic and recessive process, recent generative literature, in particular The Sound Pattern of English, has claimed that me...
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| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-1974
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| Summary: | The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the status of metathesis as a synchronic phonological rule. Although metathesis has traditionally been regarded as a relatively sporadic and recessive process, recent generative literature, in particular The Sound Pattern of English, has claimed that metathesis is a perfectly common phonological process, a mechanism which is readily available to the child as he attempts to construct the grammar of his language.The classical examples of metathesis proposed for Standard Arabic and Greenlandic Eskimo will be examined in detail. It will be shown for both cases that the metathesis rules are a consequence of rather abstract analyses which must be questioned on independent grounds. Alternative solutions for both are proposed which are independently motivated, as well as more concrete. A consequence of these more concrete solutions is that the metathesis rules can no longer be supported.The purported example of metathesis in The Sound Pattern of English will also be discussed in detail. An alternative analysis which does not require a rule of metathesis and which accounts for a wider range of forms in the language will be proposed.Finally, it will be shown that the extension of the notational system to permit rules of permutation is not supported by the results of this dissertation. |
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| ISBN: | 9781082651038 1082651036 |